Revolt of 1 Prairial Year III

The Revolt of 1 Prairial Year III occurred on 20 May 1795, the last of the popular revolts of the French Revolution. The Jacobin sans-culottes rose up against the National Convention, which was now dominated by the conservative Thermidorians, in an attempt to recapture control of the French First Republic and end the economic crisis that France had been suffering from. The sans-culottes stormed the Tuileries Palace and killed deputy Jean-Bertrand Feraud, but regular French Revolutionary Army troops were mobilized to crush the insurrection. The rebels took over the Faubourg Saint-Antoine, and the army threatened to declare the district to be in open rebellion against the governnment and starve the district into surrender, unless they handed over Feraud's killers. The Faubourg Saint-Antoine surrendered without a shot being fired, and the sans-culottes lost all of their power as a result of the coup.